A very wise man named Howard Phillips once said, "In a free republic, a person's vote is the currency of their virtue... One needs to invest that currency in only those men and women who will stand for their ideals or their vote has been wasted, squandered." Voting for the "lesser of two evils" is a squandered vote unless lesser vs. greater evil is the standard of your virtue.
Today, we see a political atmosphere where ideals, virtue, integrity, and ethics are almost unheard of. No matter which of the two major parties you focus on, one can see little more than licentiousness, depravity, vice, and corruption. By continuing to vote for those same old characters, we only put a stamp of approval on their behavior.
Congress has handed us unprotected borders, a Constitution-shredding Patriot Act, perpetual war of imperialism to keep the price of oil based on the dollar, the destruction of our industrial base with NAFTA, CAFTA and favored-nation trade status to the likes of Communist China. Our national debt and deficit have skyrocketed. The major parties have demonstrated beyond doubt that they are merely different drivers of the same bus.
Don't reward those who promise more of the same. Instead vote for men of distinction, with little celebrity, who won't sell their souls to the next special-interest lobbyist with favors and treasures untold. Two men on the ballot fit that bill here in Congressional District 7 in the state of Minnesota. Their convictions lie with the sound principles our nation was established on in the Constitution.
Ben Powers, from Austin, is running for the U.S. Senate and Ken Lucier, from Moorhead, is running for U.S. Congress, both on the Constitution Party ticket. Send the message to Washington by marking the oval in front of their names -- we are tired of the same old garbage; we want men of principle representing us. You will sleep better at night knowing you didn't put into power those whose actions do not reflect your virtue.
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To read more about Powers and Lucier, go to www.cpmn.org and click on their Web links.
Tammy Houle
Redwood Falls
